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[Adams @Adams_Tech_AI]

I come to watch this whenever I feel lost.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Keep showing up.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

This is what Charlie Munger said about Korea.

It’s up to each individual to decide how much time to spend on work, rest, and recreation.

The crux is that when a society collectively decides to change, change definitely happens.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

40% of fatherhood is walking around the house, turning off lights.

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

phone background until I hit 100m in ebitda per year (2028)

[Asmit @coolcoder56]

From TCS to Google 🫡

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Jim Cramer has said SpaceX investors aren't buying earnings, they're buying Elon Musk

[Sam Altman @sama]

We offer no explanation as to why Noams are so good at AI; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence.

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

A Model Y driver started experiencing a medical emergency with chest pain mid-drive & called his son.

His son then remotely rerouted the car – which had FSD Supervised enabled – to the nearest hospital & let them know the vehicle was en route. ER staff were standing by on arrival.

Doctors later confirmed the quick reroute likely saved his life.

[James Blunt @JBlunt1018]

Reading Dwarkesh’s story makes my blood boil.

He came to America as a child. Grew up here. Went to school here. Spoke like every other American kid. Dreamed like every other American kid.

Yet at 21, the country he called home was prepared to tell him: “Thanks for playing. Back to India.”

Not because he broke the law. Not because his family cut corners. Not because they entered illegally. They did everything exactly the way the government asked them to.

For years.

The cruelty is that neither party seemed interested in fixing it.

The Biden administration could have provided relief for aging-out dependents while they waited in endless green card backlogs. At minimum, work authorization and protection from falling off a legal cliff after spending their entire childhood in America.

Instead, thousands of these kids were left in limbo.

The Trump administration hasn’t been much better. More paperwork. More biometrics. More bureaucracy. More delays. People literally running out of status while waiting for the government to process forms the government itself required.

Somewhere tonight there’s another kid just like Dwarkesh sitting in a bedroom wondering whether their future depends on a lottery ticket, a processing delay, or a bureaucratic technicality.

That’s insanity.

America spends billions trying to attract talent from around the world, then turns around and tells the children who grew up here legally that they might have to leave the only country they’ve ever known.

There are thousands of future founders, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs trapped in that pipeline right now.

We only know Dwarkesh’s name because he made it through. We have no idea how many others we lost along the way.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).

Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.

I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.

Otherwise, back to India.

I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.

Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.

Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.

By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.

If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.

In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.

I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.

But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Sajwani @SenWarren Not impossible, but definitely requires factories on the Moon and Mars to achieve.

By then, I don’t think dollars will be used as currency. Just mass and energy.

[Rajéshwär Guptä @rawhsejar]

@IHOP completely ruined our family dine-in. Confirmed rewards accepted, but then refused multiple valid rewards from our accounts (“one per table”). App says otherwise. We left humiliated and took takeout instead.
Disrespectful to loyal customers.

Not visiting again!

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

[Aryannn @relatablehuyrrr]

When I was a kid, I looked at the toys, Now I look at the man selling them.

[Matthieu Lamoureux @LLLLITL]

As it wasn't an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, Levi's was asked to hide its logo on Levi's Stadium (Santa Clara, California).

And they did it in the smartest way possible. #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup #Levis

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Introvert @Introvert_hu_ji]

Boys, is it enough?

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@PeterDiamandis $10T or bust